EDITING STALLED?
The footage keeps coming in — a podcast recorded and untouched, an interview shot the wrong way round, a recording nobody's had time to cut. One editing bottleneck and the channel goes quiet for a week, then a month. Send us what's sitting there — pick your situation below — and it comes back a finished vertical clip, on schedule.
SEE THE LAYERS
Same source clip in every step below. Each one keeps everything from the step before it and adds exactly one thing — press play on any of them, or go left to right and the whole strip runs about a minute and a half.
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What we started from. Horizontal, no captions, no crop, nothing added.
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Word-by-word captions burned in. Still horizontal — nothing else changed yet.
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Cropped to vertical (9:16). The crop point is fixed here — tracking comes next.
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The crop now follows him as he moves, instead of holding one fixed spot.
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A dead-air pause is trimmed out, and the frame pushes in right at the cut.
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A background track comes in under the voice, mixed to stay under it.
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One small icon appears in sync with a spoken word.
Step 6, said plainly: this is what "effects" means in our pipeline today — a small graphic timed to a specific word, not a library of animated transitions or generative visuals. We'd rather show the one thing it does than promise more than that.
WHY THIS GETS MEASURED
This isn't about being careful for its own sake — a caption that drifts or audio that clips is a clip that comes back for a redo, and a redo is days you don't get back. So the same two checks run on every edit before it ships, not eyeballed, not a one-off for this page. Ask any editor for their own numbers on these two things — most won't have an answer, because most don't measure.
style_probe.py — samples the caption's bounding box
across 40 frames of the rendered clip and logs its Y-position in
pixels.ffmpeg -af loudnorm=print_format=summary — reports
integrated loudness (LUFS) and true peak (dBTP) for the finished
mix.Competitor left un-named: the numbers are checkable against the method above, a name isn't the point.
Everything above came off the same line you'd be sending your footage to — same crop, same captions, same checks, same 48 hours. No showreel edit, no one-off polish for this page.
Send your own footage and we edit your first clip at no cost, before you pay for anything.
Send footage →If what comes back isn't right, say so — we revise it, we don't hand it back and call it done.